SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Physical Disorder, Ethnography, Informal Social Control

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Official data (crime rates, figures, census reports) to apply to geography. Certain areas of the city are more crime prone. How do individuals learn criminal behaviour: assume natural conformity everyone wants to conform, but some things get in the way (so. Application: social ecologists: likens human communities to plant and animal communities applied ecological knowledge to the creation of cities, human and social ecologists made two observations: Racial, class, other groups affect one another"s daily lives. A new group of people, or gangs, can invade a certain area: segregation plant species are clustered; not much interrelationship. Some groups won"t associate with others, due to race, religion, etc: natural areas species favour natural areas where they flourish. Some social groups encroach on others and can possibly push them out: accommodation organisms living together in the same place. Groups can co-exist with each other: succession accommodation doesn"t always happen; one group may become extinct.